Level of Social Perspective Taking and the Development of Empathy in Children: Speculations from a Social‐Cognitive Viewpoint
Journal of Moral Education 5 (1):35-43 (1975)
| Abstract | Abstract: A cognitive?developmental approach to the phenomenon of empathy attempts to describe the age related (but not age specific) development of empathic understanding as a function of the development of basic social?cognitive processes and concepts. Recent research indicates that there are developmental levels in the process by which the child comes to know how his own view of self and other relates to the view of other (social perspective?taking) and related levels in conceptions of persons. Drawing upon our own research as well as the theory of J. M. Baldwin, G. H. Mead, and L. Kohlberg, we describe these developing processes and concepts and hypothesize as to the relation of social perspective?taking to each level of developing forms of empathic understanding | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,672 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesLisa Kuhmerker (1976). Social Interaction and the Development of a Sense of Right and Wrong in Young Children. Journal of Moral Education 5 (3):257-264.
Amy Coplan (2011). Will the Real Empathy Please Stand Up? A Case for a Narrow Conceptualization. Southern Journal of Philosophy 49 (s1):40-65.
Julian Paul Keenan & Mark A. Wheeler (2001). Elucidation of the Brain Correlates of Cognitive Empathy and Self-Awareness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):40-41.
Martin L. Hoffman (2001). How Automatic and Representational is Empathy, and Why. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):38-39.
Philippe Rochat (2001). Various Kinds of Empathy as Revealed by the Developing Child, Not the Monkey's Brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):45-46.
Stephanie D. Preston & Frans B. M. de Waal (2001). Empathy: Its Ultimate and Proximate Bases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):1-20.
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale & Charlie Lewis (2004). Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social Understanding Within Social Interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (1):79-96.
Judith G. Smetana (1999). The Role of Parents in Moral Development: A Social Domain Analysis. Journal of Moral Education 28 (3):311-321.
Elliot Turiel (1983). The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention. Cambridge University Press.
Olivera Petrovich (1982). Moral Development Among Mildly Mentally Handicapped School Children. Journal of Moral Education 11 (4):233-246.
Lois C. Wolf (1975). Children's Literature and the Development of Empathy in Young Children. Journal of Moral Education 5 (1):45-49.
Jacqueline N. Wood (2004). Social Cognitive Neuroscience: The Perspective Shift in Progress. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (3):360-361.
Alison F. Garton (2001). Word Meaning, Cognitive Development, and Social Interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (6):1106-1106.
Robin Banerjee (2004). The Role of Social Experience in Advanced Social Understanding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (1):97-98.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2010-09-02Total downloads76 ( #10,591 of 549,065 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,185 of 549,065 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
